The old chief and the new one
OFF he went again before Easter, shuttling between South Africa and Zaire, and on to a regional summit in Togo, trying to spread a bit of reconciliation beyond his country's borders. The conciliator in question? Not Nelson Mandela, but Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's deputy president and increasingly the man who really runs it.
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